Very Bad Wizards
Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")
February 24, 20261h 32m · 16,190 words
Show notes
David and Tamler return to the Southern Gothic well and talk about Flannery O'Connor's short story masterpiece "Good Country People." A nihilistic atheist philosophy PhD named Joy or Helga (depending on who you ask) lives with her mother and some tenants on a farm in rural Georgia. One day 19-year-old aw-shucksy Bible salesman comes to the house and shakes up her philosophical convictions.
Highlighted moments
If we were philosophers, we would turn this into skepticism about masturbation. Like, it would just mean there's no such thing as masturbation, because we can't come up with, like, a counterexample free theory of, like, yeah.
“I've been believing in nothing ever since I was born.”
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